Working in an office is so passé. If you haven’t heard yet, all the cool kids are working virtually now. Whether that be working from home, cafes (John’s pushing the limits in China), on the beach, or even “co-working” together at cafes or homes. And now that I think about it, I’ve been working in virtual teams [...]
Posts under ‘Working Virtually’
Use NetVibes as your Virtual Office
When you move from a corporate desk job (and HP and Microsoft are as corporate as you can get) to a virtual startup team, you miss out on a lot of things - steady salary, 401k matching, stock purchase plans, and, of course, the office! It wasn’t until a few months ago that I [...]
Thoughts on travel
As many of you know, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling back and forth between Chicago and Seattle, with occasional trips to SF and Irvine. Even with the annoying travel restrictions, travel is still fun and incredibly useful for a virtual organization like ours. After my last trip, here are some random thoughts:
Pros:
Traveling can [...]
Rested, refreshed, reboot
So now that we’ve both used up most of our sick and vacation days, it’s time to really get cracking again. After also having a cold for a couple weeks (not as bad as John though), I feel pretty good and my mind is clear and ready to focus. I’ve also been reading some inspiring [...]
How to actually work when you’re “working from home”
While browsing Lifehacker I found this AllBusiness blog post about a topic near and dear to our hearts: how to work from home. One of the biggest adjustments I had to make after leaving Microsoft 3 months ago was adapting to the drastic change in my work environment. Making your home a place of productivity [...]
